Apparently the scandal keeps on continuing. As I was reading some articles today, I came across the following: http://www.gamesradar.com/bungie-says-theres-no-10-year-plan-destiny/ I'll put an excerpt here for those who don't care to go read the entire article: "In the latest issue of Edge, Bungie community and marketing relations manager Eric ‘Urk’ Osborne reveals a ten-year agreement does exist, but it's not quite what you think: "Those things were so distracting, and not about the experience we were creating," he says in the latest issue of Edge. "It just became the narrative. I mean, I drive a Honda Civic. I don’t know shit about $500 million. A ten-year plan? It’s a ten-year partnership agreement. It has nothing to do with the development of the game proper. To think that somehow, before Destiny had shipped, we had some ten-year plan written down somewhere? It’s comical." This should definitely prove to everybody, precisely what these people think about their player base (i.e. customers). This is not exactly what I would label as a "bright outlook". People always talk about politicians being poor with the doublespeak and backtracking; well this essentially fits the same classification. If the $500m budget and 10 year contracts were truly not for a Destiny series in and of itself, then why was it repeatedly told to the public, not to mention consumers for a period of many years, before the game was even released? Edit: A big thanks to everybody who helped contribute to this whole discussion throughout the last two days. Yes DeeJ, even you helped, in more ways than you know. Quite a few of you helped to clarify the situation surrounding this recent revelation, choosing to spend time to go back through gaming forums, websites, and Youtube to find where Bungie's own personnel made statements related to the 10 years of Destiny work, and for that you have my appreciation. Many of those things I was once aware of (hence my immediate inclination to even write this post inititally), but I had forgotten their immediate locations over time. How many people we reached anew with this sort of discussion remains unknown, but it has proven that we all have quite a bit of unity when it pertains to this type of subject which affects an entire gaming community, including outside of Destiny itself. We may very well be a minority here in the forums, as a lot of people have liked to inform us the last couple of months, but Rome was not built in a day either. If we have even gained one single person, that can now recognize that this type of business model cannot be allowed to stand in this industry, then the time we have invested was worth it.